BWA in SAP stands for Business Warehouse Accelerator.

It called as SAP BWA or SA

P BIA or SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse Accelerator or SAP BW accelerator. It
is one of the components in NetWeaver Architecture. It s a tool used for increasin
g the performance of NetWeaver BW.
The high volume data and high query frequency will affect the performance of BW.
Here comes the BWA component for reducing the query time dramatically and incre
asing the performance. BWA creates the data as indexes in a compressed format. T
hese data are stored in the BW accelerator server s file. When we execute a query
in first time the corresponding data will be stored in main memory and next time
data will be retrieved from this main memory instead of doing the fetch operati
on in data source. This data will remain in memory until we delete that using s
pecial programs.
BW accelerator sorts each individual column in a table and will add some require
d entries at beginning. Without BWA the queries needs to search all the data in
a table. Instead of that BWA will provide the corresponding data faster by using
the created indexed files.
Depending on the maximum table size defined in BWA hardware, the large tables wi
ll be divided horizontally into many small tables and will create separate index
files and will store it in separate servers. These separate index files will pr
ocess in parallel and we will get the data faster.
See the main points of BWA activities
Creating the index files
Divide large tables and creating several index file for parallel processing
Sorting each columns in a table
Compressing the data
Stores the accessed data in main memory for next access
BWA (SAP BIA) architecture
See some points on BWA architecture in NetWeaver
It is based on TREX technology
The installation is based on 64-bit architecture
RFC is the communication method between BW and BWA
Only one BW Accelerator server can be used for each BW system (In some cases it
won t work)
BWA Transaction Codes:
RSDDB: SAP NetWeaver BW Accelerator
RSDDTPS: To create BWA indexes
RSDDBIAMON2: BW Accelerator Monitor
RSRV: Analysis and Repair of BW Objects